On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 04:39:03PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In the time Emacs 22 is the current release, a typical new PC will come to > > be around 20 GHz, and this slowness will not matter. > Actually, "recent" trends indicate that this is not true. We'll probably > see typical new PCs with 4-16 CPUs, each one running at 4-5GHz, but that > won't help Emacs much. Hmmm. One processor for foreground editing, another for doing garbage collection, yet another four or five for background font-locking and syntactic cacheing, and so on.
That could be quite a fast system. > Stefan -- Alan. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
